Headlands Open House Gallery

Still riding high after my first Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts on Sunday, July 29th. Thanks to my husband, daughter and ten friends (three not down here) for gracing me with their presence, making for wonderful day.

Keep going to see the gallery of photos from my studio installation based on themes and objects from the novel-in-progress. In this case, Easter Sunday dinner table at Florida’s house. My goal was to create a small slice of southwest Georgia, complete with cricket sounds in the background.

I was as intrigued as the open house guests were by being able to walk into a physical space representing the one dimensional world of the manuscript. This gave me fresh insight into the characters, shopping for the curtains Florida would hang at her window, playing in mud to distress Cricket’s blanky, which is draped over her chair at the table. This gallery also includes video of the installation and audio of me reading.

In my attic studio, #10 in Bldg 960.

The installation: Sunday Dinner at Florida’s House, Easter, 2012

End table, Florida’s house.

Photo collection of characters’ cars.

Photos of 1960s Albany Movement. In the novel, fictional Fletcher was 18 and worked with the real life, iconic Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

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About Anita Gail

Writer, visual artist and oral tradition storyteller, Anita Gail was born and raised in Albany, Georgia, living in the Bay Area since 1985. As a 2018-19 Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts, she is making final revisions on her debut novel, Peach Seed Monkey. The story was a Novella semi-finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.

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Art Installation

7.29.18 Debut Open House as 2018-19 Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts: an art installation in my studio based on scene: “Sunday Dinner” from Peach Seed Monkey, my work-in-progress novel. To view gallery: Click on photo above.